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More Patches To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness

Phoronix: More Patches To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness

About one month ago we reported on the emergence of patches that may fix the Linux desktop responsiveness problems, which is an issue that's been experienced by many Linux desktop users in recent years. For Linux users it may take many seconds for a menu to appear when clicking on it or a half-minute to do a VT switch, but fortunately it's becoming a thing of the past with these patches working well for many users and has since been integrated into the mainline Linux kernel. The story though is not over as even more patches have just been published to further improve the Linux desktop responsiveness...

I doubt someone considers something like this like a typical desktop workload to optimize the scheduler for gnash.

well, other parts of the kernel might need optimization for that, too

anyways: it perfectly plays webradio (streaming) and youtube on HD (e.g. the Harry Potter trailer) with a average load of 28.30 (kernel compilation) - that's with an core i7 860 (4 cores x 2 threads [HT]), there's also noticable but tolerable slowing down of the desktop effects but it still works